Joe Maddon is one of the most highly esteemed managers in Major League Baseball. He has been skipper of the Chicago Cubs since 2014, and led them to a World Series title in 2016. It was the Cubs’ first World Series championship in 108 years.

Speaking at a conference in Christ Church, England, The Rt Revd Simon Burton-Jones, Bishop of Tonbridge in the United Kingdom, recently made a strong statement about mental illness, Generation Z, and the church.

This time of year churches set up nativity scenes to remind us to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas, that God the Son was born in human flesh to a woman named Mary in humble circumstances, yet with concurring signs and wonders: an angelic choir announcing the Messiah to shepherds in a field, a bright star above, magi from the East. Emmanuel, God with us, born in a manger, the lowly, awaited, exalted true king.

Reporting often focuses on the weird, emergent, and notable. It is, after all “the news.” The sensational tends to sell more content. In the digital world, it is the strange stuff that is most suitable as clickbait, or most useful for broadcasters in attracting eyeballs.